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New Zealand cricket team in the West Indies in 1984–85

International cricket tour

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ18167350 ↗
Source-derived summary

The New Zealand national cricket team toured the West Indies from March to May 1985 and played a four-match Test series against the West Indies cricket team, which the West Indies won 2–0. New Zealand were captained by Geoff Howarth; the West Indies, by Viv Richards.

Test series summary

First Test

Second Test

Third Test

Fourth Test

One Day Internationals (ODIs)

The West Indies won the series 5-0.

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This entry incorporates text from “New Zealand cricket team in the West Indies in 1984–85” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.